the west was actually dissolved when we started teaching the curriculum in the vernacular
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i guess global english is the next best thing but were not teaching milton
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I mean this seriously Was listening to Durant last night at 3am while leveling a priest because insomnia and he covered the medieval history of translations and universities and language Incredibly impressive how really every scholar in Europe just communicated in Latin
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To hear him tell it, the educated in Europe were genuinely integrated in a period of massive cultural fragmentation The abandonment of a common (and arcane) scholarly tongue seems like a real loss for the learned And also cuts us off from our roots
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A good thing about not using Latin anymore is it lowers the barrier to entry for participation in intellectual life. I’ve read that Leonardo had a hard time learning about some things that interested him because he never learned Latin.
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I guess since you feel that Latin is a signal of competence, you might feel that this is a mixed blessing. But I think the good of lowering the barriers far outweighs the bad.
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Once I would have agreed with you but https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths …
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